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I cannot render my project!!
I have been using working on an AE greenscreen compositing project for 2 months now, and after completing the project I went to render it… and every time I try, I get this error message half-way through the render:
After Effects error: adding to movie (-1309).
(44 :: 29)Here’s what I have already tried:
I’ve rendered using the render que AND by simply exporting the QT movie from FILE>EXPORT
I’ve tried exporting into multiple codecs (PNG, Animation…)
I’ve tried exporting to multiple drives (internal and external firewire)
I’ve tried collecting the files and moving to another mac to render
I’ve tried pre-composing into multiple comps in lower rez formats (720p)Here’s a little about the project:
The movie itself is only 3 minutes long.
It was shot at HD 1080 using the sony EX1 and converted to QT with the sony transfer app
Everything looks great in RAM preview… sound and pictureMy System:
1 year old PowerBook (And tried on a G5 tower)
2 gigs RAM… Plenty of HD space
AE CS3, OSX10.4I have a client scratching his head wondering why if the project is finished, he can’t see it!!!
Please help… Thank You!
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3 Replies
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Is it something about that particular frame that is crashing it, or is it just your memory filling up at that particular spot?
You can see if it’s the frame or not by rendering out a still of that frame and seeing if it crashes.
If that goes OK, try rendering it out as 2 or 3 shorter files, maybe closing/reopening AE in between each one. I had one shot last year that looked great in RAM preview, but for some reason my layers would get out of sync in the final render when I rendered out the whole thing. I had to break it up like this in order to keep everything on track. Never figured out what caused it, but I at least figured out a way around it.
Patrick Algermissen
Poem Pictures, Inc.
http://www.PoemFilms.com -
Thanks for your advice, but after trying all your suggestions, it still does not work….
Any other advice?
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Hmmmm…. I’m mostly out of ideas at this point, especially not knowing your specific project.
Maybe you could try rendering as an image sequence, and rendering only parts of it at a time. Is it just one frame, or one section that’s giving you trouble? If so, you could render the areas around it as an image sequence, say PNG, and then try rendering the problem frame(s) as single still images, that you name properly to be part of the sequence.
Another thing may be, since you say it works great in the RAM preview, you could make a RAM Preview and try rendering with “Current Settings” instead of “Best Settings,” which I believe would just write your RAM Preview to a file. I could be wrong about that, though.
Patrick Algermissen
Poem Pictures, Inc.
http://www.PoemFilms.com
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